Backgrounds Quote by Spencer W. Kimball

Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and…

— Stephanie Coontz

Marriage is hard at best;disagreements and difficult adjustments abound.While no one must live in an adusive and dangerous relationship,accepting the difficulties of poverty,hardship,and disappointment…

— Mariane Corbito

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Unemployment, low wages, and poverty discourage family formation and erode family stability, making it less likely that individuals will marry in the first place…

— Stephanie Coontz

Even in the most ideal marriage problems and challenges will arise. There is a constant barrage of distractions and circumstances in our society working…

— Anonymous

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

— Helene D. Gayle

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

— E. W. Howe

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Over the years, so many of the barriers that prevented people from getting married, crossing lines of faith or color or ethnicity have just…

— Hillary Clinton

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

— Hank Hanegraaff

Many alternatives to traditional marriage have emerged. People feel free to shop around, experimenting with several living arrangements in succession. And when people do…

— Stephanie Coontz

Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects...It affects not only the two people involved, but…

— Spencer W. Kimball